Strategic moves support company's commitment to citizenship, continued investments in the grid across the state

ATLANTA, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Power, the state's leading electric utility serving 2.8 million customers, has named Audrey King as senior vice president of Corporate Responsibility, and president and CEO of the Georgia Power Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) and Georgia's third-largest corporate giving foundation which provided support for more than 400 organizations statewide in 2024 alone. In her new role, she will lead efforts to advance corporate responsibility, philanthropy, community engagement and volunteerism across the state, focusing on education, the environment and empowering Georgia communities.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alabama Power Board of Directors has elected Stacey Turner vice president of the company's Environmental Affairs organization, effective immediately.

Turner's responsibilities will include environmental compliance and strategy, as well as the company's environmental stewardship programs and operations.

Turner previously served as associate general counsel for Environmental Policy and Litigation for Southern Company Services Inc. (SCS). Before joining SCS, she managed a team of lawyers at Georgia Power, serving as lead environmental lawyer and supporting external affairs. Turner began her career at Morris, Manning & Martin law firm in Atlanta, Ga.

ATLANTA, April 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Company Gas today announced that Venessa Harrison, former president of AT&T's Southeast Coastal States, has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective April 24.

As president of AT&T's South Coastal States, Harrison led transformational wireless and wireline deployment efforts for the company's critical infrastructure across Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, including the strategic direction of AT&T's network investment, public policy, economic development and community engagement activities throughout the region.

ATLANTA, April 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern Company today announced it is increasing its dividend by 8 cents per share on an annualized basis to a rate of $2.96 per share.

This marks the 77th consecutive year that Southern Company has paid a dividend on its common stock that is equal to or greater than the previous quarter. Additionally, this is the 24th consecutive year the company has raised its dividend.

The company is celebrating 15 years of Earth Day leadership

ATLANTA, April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This Earth Day, Atlanta residents and businesses can be environmental stewards by joining Georgia Natural Gas at Lenox Square to dispose of unwanted electronics responsibly. Georgia Natural Gas, Georgia's leading natural gas provider, along with partners Lenox Square, eWaste/ePlanet and 11Alive, invites the community to bring electronic waste in need of recycling to Lenox Square (outside of the Dining Pavilion), located at 3393 Peachtree Road NE in Atlanta, on Saturday, April 26, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

National industry recognition from Edison Electric Institute highlights exceptional response to Hurricane Helene in 2024; Georgia Power hiring hundreds of new lineworkers in coming years as Georgia grows

ATLANTA, April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Power, the state's leading electric utility serving 2.8 million customers, is joining other utilities across the country in marking April as Lineworker Appreciation Month. This April, the company is highlighting the work of local power crews during Hurricane Helene in 2024 and celebrating the recent recognition by Edison Electric Institute (EEI) with its Emergency Recovery Award, commending the company's exceptional efforts to swiftly restore service to the public in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in the fall of 2024. The winners were chosen by a panel of judges following an international nomination process.

Funding for twenty-one new programs focused on ensuring Georgia has workforce needed for growing economy

ATLANTA, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Georgia Power Foundation announced today that it has reached a milestone, awarding over $2.25 million through 65 grants to support workforce development needs through educational programs across the state since 2020. The Georgia Power Foundation's Workforce for Georgia signature grant program, administered by The Georgia Foundation for Public Education, provides support to school districts that offer Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) through traditional high school programs or through College and Career Academies (CCA). The funds are used to begin or improve programs that help train students to meet the workforce needs of industries and businesses in the local and regional communities. These programs have reached over 10,000 students across Georgia since the program's inception.

BOSTON, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- OneLayer, the leader in private LTE/5G OT management and Zero Trust security, is proud to announce that Southern Linc, the wireless subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), has selected OneLayer's Bridge platform to enhance the management and security of its highly reliable, highly secure CriticalLinc™ LTE network.

Leveraging Ericsson's core network technology, Southern Linc owns and manages a private regional LTE network covering 122,000 square miles of service territory. The network supports a wide variety of devices and applications for commercial and utility customers including electric grid control and monitoring devices, cellular routers, mission-critical push-to-talk services, smartphones, hotspots, laptops/tablets, sensors, and more. With significantly increasing demand for network access, Southern Linc selected OneLayer's Bridge platform to enhance the management and security of the CriticalLinc network.

BOSTON, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- OneLayer, the leader in private LTE/5G OT management and Zero Trust security, is proud to announce that Southern Linc, the wireless subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO), has selected OneLayer's Bridge platform to enhance the management and security of its highly reliable, highly secure CriticalLinc™ LTE network.

Leveraging Ericsson's core network technology, Southern Linc owns and manages a private regional LTE network covering 122,000 square miles of service territory. The network supports a wide variety of devices and applications for commercial and utility customers including electric grid control and monitoring devices, cellular routers, mission-critical push-to-talk services, smartphones, hotspots, laptops/tablets, sensors, and more. With significantly increasing demand for network access, Southern Linc selected OneLayer's Bridge platform to enhance the management and security of the CriticalLinc network.

Company ranked #1 by J.D Power for Business Customer Satisfaction in segment for 2024

ATLANTA, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Power, the state's leading electric utility serving 2.8 million customers, continues to focus on improving and enhancing the customer experience throughout its business. The company works every day with hundreds of thousands of businesses of all sizes and different industries across the state to help them manage their energy use, save money and implement solutions to unique challenges for their business.